How To Grow Aquatic Plant Seeds offline for Your Aquarium - 30 Day Experiment 

Hi could you do on a video update on how tall these plants grow

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Without water would grow quicker as the plants have access to CO2... submerged grows way slower that way

From what I know, these are usually a species of hygrophilia, and are marketed as carpet plants, though some companies use hygrophila polysperma seeds

you did what i wanted to do lol. they look like radish spouts

Before I started cycling my tank, I took the time to keep my tank empty besides substrate and similar "aquatic" plant seeds I bought online. I made a greenhouse like set up for them until they sprouted, gave it some more time and put the water in my tank and began the cycle. Now I am a few months deep into this tank, and I heard that the plants will eventually die off since they rant really supposed to be underwater. Now after a while I have some thinned patches where the plants have died off, but the tank is being occupied as well. Im not sure how I should go about trying to fix the patches. I have an extra packet of seeds and I was thinking about trying to use mesh to make a carpet of some kind for the seeds to sprout on? Im not sure what exactly I could do, if anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate it!

You reading chinese

take a shot every time he says "experiment"

So I had these in a 10 gallon tank for about a 7-8 months and they where real nice! No issues what so ever, but I did religiously clean the tank and I had enough filtration for like a big ass tank on that tiny 10, and after about two weeks of 0 care during a trip I had an algae bloom that just killed everything... Except these damn things 🤣

so how would you be able to put them in the aquarium?? need help it is my first time

You should try growing different types of terrestrial mosses underwater, and observe how it does

Well done. Recently I dropped a tiny coleus sprout in my tank. I'm now enjoying watching it reach tiny hair fine roots into the soil, it is gardening with guppies.

It looks like a fun experiment you've been working on. I feel like now's the time to be doing projects like this since most people have more time on their hands and need to stay a bit busy for mental stimulation at the very least. It's kind of weird that they don't identify the species you are purchasing, but I can kind of see how that might add to the fun for some people. I hope you update this in another month or so. I'm interested to see if you can positively identify it as it continues to grow out. By the way, are you still planning on designing a hat with your logo on it? I'm more of a hat guy than a t-shirt guy so I'd be all over that if it gets done. Thanks for the video I've been really enjoying your content.

Cool project! I have been watching on my fire stick TV! It won't let me comment 😭but I wanted you to know I love what you doing and I've been watching and liking!! You guys have an amazing channel!! Great content and always sharing the love for fish and plants!! Rock on!!!💚🌱🐟🌱🙏

Hi, Joseph, I was looking for ideas on how to grow aquarium plants from seeds that I got off wish a while back. I ran across your video and it looks easy. I think I'll try to let mine grow immersed for 3 or 4 weeks in the tanks before filling it up, I like the way the ones in the jar look. I hope you and Amber are doing well and have a Merry Christmas and happy New Year.

I had some of those and they eventually grow tall

plant those seeds over lava rocks, they wont grow fast and tall, and they anchor good. planting them on substrates make them grow fast and tall, and gets uprooted easily.

maybe because one is a glass container which allows more light and the other one is a plastic one which is more opaque

I was thinking about buying these but still undecided. My questions are do they spread, do they stay the 1/4-3/8" tall or grow taller taking over the tank? I'm using peat moss as my base layer topped with sand. Hopefully this will work and it won't take better part of a month before I can add my fish

Happier?...really? Just because something is bigger doesn't mean it's happier, 'happy is an emotion and lacking a central nervous system, sensory neurons and receptors, plants cannot perceive sensory stimuli. Besides, I prefer the slower growth, much less work trimming it and quite frankly, the smaller ones, I mean the 'sadder' ones (hahaha) look more uniform in size and shape.

Hope you get back to us in 60 and 90 days to see what they are.

I'm really interested in aquarium seeds as it seems like a really cheap and easy way to get a carpeted tank but I am wondering if the plants are able to spread and propagate on their own, if I were to take a small chunk and put it in a container will it eventually fill the whole container again?

I just dumped the seeds in a cup of water mixed them up turn into a slimy gel I'll put them in my already established tank stretched it out like a cobweb and then covered it work like a champ

Hi, I made a mistake and filled the substrate with a lot of water and then threw the seeds in. Can this cause them to rot?

Would love an update on how they turned out.

Question, if the seeds molded over my amazonia soil do I just have to scrap everything or can I reuse the soil?

The glad vs the plastic may make a difference

Can i transplant these carpet with roots to other aquarium,will it work ? I mean like we plant montecarlo from cup?

omg... thank you...😍😍😍😊

Gracias por compartir interesante forma de obtener bellas plantas acuáticas, la maravilla humedad y luz para dar respuesta a una hermosa planta y gracias a un hermoso hermano que comparte mucho conocimiento de atención a los acuarios de agua dulce que Dios te siga bendiciendo con tanto amor y gusto a los peces 🐠 que mejor lugar para tener paz ✌️🙏

Hey I wad just wondering will it work with normal garden soil just to grow emerged.

What if we dissolve C02 in the water actively rather than spray water? Perhaps that could prevent the mould while allowing the plant to grow well.

PLEASE READ. added the seeds after adding the water, they are now floating around everywhere and attching to my plants, please HELP

What seeds are they?

In my experience, never buy Chinese seeds; I got two packets of assorted aquatic plant seeds from two separate companies, and they both just ended up being some sort of terrestrial grass, and it was the SAME grass seeds from both companies.

Looks like chia seeds lol😂

Tought me plz sir

Is it a must to cover it with plastic? After planting?

how longer they can live in aquascape? will it have live like hairgrass or cuba or glosso? thank's for yout very inspiration

Thanks for the experiment Doc! 👍

Germinate 😂

Hi, could you do another video like this but with dwarf hair grass seed that can be bought online? Thankyou!

Hi, i need some help here, please help me? My steps: 1. I added the aqua soil 2. I added water to the level slightly lower than the aqua soil level 3. I added the seeds, covered the glass vase with ziplock bag 4. I place the glass vase in a corner of my room, with minimal lightings Today is the second day, my plan was to give it 10 hours of LED lightings starting tomorrow, but now i noticed there are white cotton looking kind of molds growing around the seeds. Is that normal? What should i do? Please help me?

No follow up.. could you tell me how long they lasted after being submerged? Did they melt or continue to thrive?

I tried this method but at first the seeds were molded and after 2 - 3 weeks after the seeds germinate, the algae starts to fill in the container and the mold is gone. How do I prevent this from happening

38hrs and counting yyeeeww

Water grass

Where can i buy those seeds

Will do this since I have spare fish bowl and got substrate soil and seeds 😊

This video helped me a lot

He never did come back with the identification of the plant. Looks like this was one of his last videos.

I don't know if he sprays water on it everyday

These things die after about a year of being submerged. They also take out everything else with it because they are impossible to clean and your ammonia levels will skyrocket

👎It would have been nice if this video ended with the information about the plant species and the sources where he purchased those seeds ( if found that the plants are anything but weeds)>>>otherwise, quite pointless

I threw some of these on land moss in wet sand... inches tall and still growing... i grew some under water and they stopped growing after sprouting... They are fun to play with... i guess?

how you getting the plant out with hammering them ?¿

Any idea are they really aquarium plants?

You put too many seeds, why?

Perhaps the larger leaves were a result of increased gas exchange prior to covering with water? I’m also interested in the 48 hour “dark” period prior to giving them light. I’m wondering if that’s necessary or how it affects them. Also, I’m curious as to how much temperature plays as a variable. From my research so far I have read that too little humidity will cause the plant to grow a thicker cuticle (the waxy covering that helps the plant retain water). For a dry start, the plants will need to maintain a thinner cuticle because it will allow them to facilitate the transportation of water and carbon dioxide once submerged. I’m wondering if this was part of the difference? Great experiment thanks for documenting it!

is that ok if i planted on direct sunlight

Thanks for knowledge sharing. I was confused that for how long time I should cover aquarium to retain moisture for plants. Now its pretty clear .

I wonder 🤔. Can goldfish eat them?

You don’t know what you ordered d u m b a s s ?

My guess is chia seeds. Maybe glossostigma, baby tears, monte carlo or staurogyne repens if it even comes in seeds.

fghh

I'm still uncertain if what I bought are really aquatic plants. I bought mini hair grass which is still not germinating, mini leaf grass that already sprouted and clover which I have not planted yet. I've seen it is what is said it is, but I am not sure if it is real aquatic plants for others said that their plants melted for weeks and months after being submerged.

I think they might be a paludarium plant goes great with mosses

Can you please share the link from where did you purchase the seeds?

These are likely "pearl weed" or "pearl grass" seeds

How often do you water them in the dark cycle?

like this one, make more experiments with other plants

Don’t get those if you want a carpet they just keep growing I let mine grow out to see their max and they grew out the top of my tank

Now that their grown, how would you add to your tank?

Do we need to water the seeds daily ? Plz reply

Source of the seeds? Thanks Fred O

I like the ska at the beginning of the video

I just bought the same type of seeds from Amazon and its showing the name : *Double Leaf Aquarium Carpet Plant*

These are glossostigma seeds right?

The same thing ,I use moss

late post butit looks like love grass

Looks like mini leaf seeds

i think there carpet seeds

Can you plant the seeds right into the aquarium with water and fish in? Or …

great video

Great info.. tnx!

Maybe dwarf baby tears

Big help, tnx

Any update?

Is it chia seed?

Is that cowgrass

Seed name??

small leaf grass

Did you figure out what plant species are they? I do have exactly the same and I used them in my tanks

Do any of you know if you can grow them fully in water? Like can you put seeds in water and then will they grow?

can i ask about the update if the plants thrived after couple of months or did it melt?

Yo hice el mio super facil plantas las semillas las sacas afuera de dia las metes de noche y el proceso es más rápido y más fácil

I feel like springtails would Be great for the germination I have a culture of them I'm going to try it out when I start my carpet

Are you making an update on this plants? Great video starting my seeds tomorrow in a new aquarium setup.

You got your Chinese friend to translate Japanese? Well maybe he has mad language skills.